Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-23
BIG NEW YORK.
TOPICS OF THE BUSY LIFE IN THE
GREAT METROPOLIS.
Drsmatic Success and Failuro-Tho Terry
i.ibei suit-The Coal Famine
Dapeing-A Grand Wine
Cellar, SC.


NEW YORK, January %, 1887.
There were two first nights durin;
the week, and each was remarkable il
its way. young English woman
pretty, graceful, and clever-made hcl
first appearance in New York ut ID,
Umon-Square Theatre, house that i
rapidly achieving distinction as th,
home hospital haven of rest for all tn,
rank failures in Christendom Mis-
Hastings arrived shortly after Viole
Camcron's dismissal frisco, and hcl
managers became frightened aud post
poned her dc5W until the dust settled
over the Cameron shindy. Miss Hast
ings has played with great success in
England, is q Jolly young woman OF
twenty years or thonab0ut, and, unlike
all other English importations of the
feminine gender, she is unacc0mpanied
by any faint of scandal. When hen
managers decided TO bring her
ont II was suddenly discovered
that there was no theatre to he
had. After time they secured
an opening al the Union Square on
agreeing to begin their season at once.
There was n scramble, and a play was
hurriedly written and produced with
ont sufficient rehearsal. II was an
eeric sort of a play Nobody in the
audience seemed TO have Il distinct
idea what il was about, and there can
be no question of the absolute ignO-
rance of the actors concerning their
doStiniCs and endeavOrs. Throughout
the mOurnful and unhappy comedy
Miss Hastings worked like n beaver
and succeeded in establishing her
clevcIneSs and ability, but the load
was too much for her The most pro
nounced genius in the world could not
have carried that play to anything APP
preaching success. So the only English
actress who has recently come TO
America and started in to win success
without the aid of indecency and
scandal has failed through the abiect
stupidity of her manages.
DAYS COMPANY N SHAKESPEARE.
Mr.. Augustin DAILY took his clever
North American Comedy Company ont
of the conventional and contemporary
field of fashionable clothes and cynical
speech the other night and plunged
them headlong into Shakespeare. He
did "Taming of the Shrew," accord
ing to his own words, "for the first
> time in America" OF course. Barry
Sullivan and Mr. Booth have often pre-
sented the play, but it has never before
been played as Shakespeare wrote It,
1t has been in rehearsal for many
months, and there were several notable
additions to Mr. Days regular com
pany. The costumes were superb and
the Suggesting faultless. Everywhere
there were evidences of the genius of
one Of the greatest stage managers in
the world, and the servants and minor
characters were played 10y such sterling
artists as James Lewis and Mrs. Gilbert
In all the small details it was won
deriul production, and yet it failed tt
score just where il should have been
strongest. The man who could con
quer such IA shrew rs Shakespeare drew
should be Il man of amazing force and
violence. Booths Pertruchio is not "A
great performance, but it shows the
possibilities of the part. There is.
however, a very wide gulf between the
Pertruchio of Booth and that of Mr..
John Drew, Of Days company. Drew,
who is the best type we have of the
conventional society man and of the
New Yorker of the nineteenth century,
made weak and winded Pertruchio
when he attempted to storm and rave.
He is "A man of the keenest artistic
intelligence, and in the lighter
scenes he was droll, whimsical
and amusing, but when it came to the
heavy and stronger passages he was
found wanting Miss Ada Rehan be
gins to show the effect of her continu-
Gus work in Mr.. Days company. She
has acted continuously now for many
years. In the summer, when most
actors are resting, the DAILY troupe is
on its customary foreign tour, so that
Miss Rehan practically plays all the
year round. 1t is pity to wear her
out so rapidly, for she undoubtedly
stands at the very head of American
actresses. Her position here is not dis
similar TO that o! Miss Teny's in Lon
don. Irving is too wise to ovcrtax his
beautiful colleague. Miss Terry does
not act at the Lyccum more than four
or five months ont of the year Mr..
DAILY should take hint from this and
allow the most valuable and conscien-
t;ous member Of his company to rocu-
peTate before it is too late.
MRS. TERRY's LIBEL SUIT.
| met last week Mrs Kate Louise
Terry, who has recently come into n
large fortune after most romantic ca
reer. She is pushing her libel suit
against the Word. The papers were
served on Mr. JOSEPH Pulitzer on Tues !
day. Damages are put at 100000.
All sorts OF ruses were adopted by |
Mr.. Pulitzer to obtain an interview
with Mrs. Terry, who is stopping at a
well-known hotel with her baby heiress,
Juanita Teresita, and two French maids
Z o avoid the reporters she has not re-
Clustered Reporters, detectives, and |
personal friends Of Mr.. Fromme, her |
lawyer, have been Influenced 10y Mr. |
Pulitzer to endcavOr to obtain her adj |
dress. Mr. fromme's Office has been |
overrun with people in Mr. Puitzer's |
employ. Through them he has offered |
to retIact, and has also intimated that
he is pot the proprietor of the UOr{d, !
but only the f9ure-head for an I'M
Known syndicate.
Mrs. Teny is a plump, handsome
blonde, with profusOn of golden
hair, and large, expressive blue eyes.
She is five feet six inches in height,
with fine, Observation-Disclosures, and
q determined manner. Her features
are large with the exception of her
nose, which is small and straight. Her
hands and feet are slender and shapely.
When saw her she wore a loose
flowing robe of black, known as II peig-
uoir, trimmed with Grape. Although
only recently recovered from her con-
finement she showed few traces of her
illness. She conyersed pleasantly and
IN answer to my in
quiries she said that the libel COM
planned of is statement published in
The World OF December 18th, which
said that she was the same woman that
figured as a keeper of house of i'll
fame in this city under the name of
Kate Williams, and that she turned
States evidence TO save herself from
charge of counterfeiting. The records
of the courtS show thnf Those stake